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November 17 Meet Saifullah Shafiq – SharePoint Server MVP from PakistanMicrosoftfeed.com delivers another MVP interview….
Tell us who you are? My name is Saifullah Shafiq. I am a SharePoint Server MVP. I am a SharePoint consultant and author. I have been writing technical programming articles/tutorials since 1999. My technical articles have been published on 62 different programming related web sites. I have also written for magazines, both paper-based and online. I am founder of SharePoint Pakistan User Group, which is the first and only SharePoint related user community in Pakistan. We started this group in 2006. Currently it has over 450 members. Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded? What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies? What does being an MVP mean to you? November 16 Meet Adil Mughal – Visual C# MVP from PakistanAnother great interview – check it out on Microsoftfeed.comAli this project is looking great – keep going!!!!
Tell us who you are? I’m Adil Mughal. I’m Microsoft MVP for Visual C#. I’m leading two most influential User Groups in Pakistan “DevNext” and “Emerging .NET Devs”. I’m Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and participate actively in community through organizing and speaking at different events. Besides contributing in Community, I work at Development Executive at Telenor Pakistan as my full time job. Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded? What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies? What does being an MVP mean to you? What do you do when you are not building software’s? If you could ask Steve Ballmer one question about Microsoft, what would it be?
November 12 Meet Marwan Tarek – SharePoint MVP from EgyptDirectly (with permission) from www.MicrosoftFeed.com Well done Ali, I love this MVP interview series you are embarking on – stunning….
Tell us who you are? Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded? What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies? What does being an MVP mean to you? What do you do when you are not building software’s? If you could ask Steve Ballmer one question about Microsoft, what would it be? Gail Shaw (South African SQL MVP) Autographs book for Bill Gates
Just a quick recap: 53 SQL MVPs joined together to write an exceptional deep dive book on SQL server (SQL Server Deep Dives), each MVP chose an area he / she was most passionate about and write those chapters of the book. (more information can be found at Manning (http://www.sqlservermvpdeepdives.com/) The authors of this book have generously donated 100% of their royalties to support War Child International. War Child works in conflict areas around the world helping hundreds of thousands of children every year. Visit www.warchild.org for more information.
This week at SQLPass the book was unveiled and the MVPs offered themselves up for a Signing session. Now who do you think they got to autograph a book for, none other than – well ye the title gave it away a suppose – Bill Gates, here is a picture of Gail Shaw, our very own SQL MVP from South Africa busy autographing a copy of SQL Server Deep Dive for Bill Gates. (Photograph complements of Aaron Nelson) MVPs must be among the most passionate, soft hearted people I know, but don’t tell then I said so ;-)
November 11 Article featured in Live technology marketplaceMVP Adil Ahmed Mughal has had his article on Visual Studio 2010 published at LiveTech Pro, check it out http://www.livetechpro.com/intellisense-improvements-in-visual-studio-2010-exciting-feature/
Thanks for the update Adil, nice going…. November 03 Kevin Turner visits MEAand the MVPs in Israel get involved hosting an MVP booth…
From November 3-6, Kevin Turner will visit Israel, Jordan, Russia and France. The primary focus of the travel is to reinforce Microsoft’s commitment to the region and position Microsoft as an innovation leader in light of reaching major product milestones this fall. During his visit Turner will also meet with partners, customers and government elites. The press engagements for the week are as follows: · Tuesday, in Tel Aviv, Turner will participate in a press roundtable with members from the country’s most elite publications as well as a press interview with Yediot Ahronot. · Wednesday, in Amman, Turner will announce a strategic partnership agreement with the government of Jordan. · Thursday, in Moscow, during a press conference Turner will launch a new Microsoft Technology Center. · Friday, in Paris, Turner will participate in a press interview with 01 Informatique.
More to follow soon. October 30 Windows 7 house partiesWow, many MVPs held house parties for windows 7. I was honoured to be able to attend at least one of them, what a blast, it might sound strange but GEEK parties can be a lot of fun: Some feedback Craig Nicolson: We had fun, doing the South African thingy – braai, and it was raining as well, but that did not put a dampener on proceedings with Windows7 dual screens, xbox360, rock band and good food and good company, we parties till the early hours.
Paul Somers:
Adil Ahmed Mughal: And here is what Munir Usman had to say I had an amazing time at Windows 7 House Party hosted by Adil on Sunday, 25th Oct! It was a unique kind of experience where we did not only introduce and discussed Windows 7 with our techy friends but also had lots of fun by making some noise (virtually on twitter! :)) We also compared lots of Windows 7 features with Vista. Since majority of attendees were developers, we also discussed upcoming Visual studio 2010 and .net 4.0! I am sure you already have seen this cool video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAoCESdA_EY (Yes I am a PC and I love Visual Studio :P) and here are some pics we shared on twitter: Group photo: http://twitpic.com/mw8be (2 MVPs, 1 MSP, 2 Tech Bloggers, and professional software developers) Myself showing Signed copy of Windows 7 by Steve Balmer http://twitpic.com/mvf80 MSP Taimur is playing with Windows 7 http://twitpic.com/mvi2e MVP Adil is showing goodies :) http://twitpic.com/mvp6x Host is playing with Windows 7 http://twitpic.com/mvhph Myself comparing Windows 7 with Vista http://twitpic.com/mvhau Windows 7 Yay! http://twitpic.com/mgfat
Hopefully more to follow soon……
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